Images from the country’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander show the first sprouting plants.

Scientist D. Allan Drummond’s study of life in sculpture aims to provoke curiosity and wonder about the world.

Researchers have outfitted brewer’s yeast with light-harvesting semiconductors to boost chemical productivity.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed only minor alterations in growth and gene expression when its 16 chromosomes were combined.

Under one name the species is used in food fermentation, and under the other it is a drug-resistant cause of yeast infections.

The young UT Southwestern professor studied cell fate in yeast and was about to publish the first results from his lab.

The yeast’s output of noscapine, a cough suppressant naturally made by poppies, is 18,000-fold higher than previous attempts.

With multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.

By spreading a poison and hoarding the remedy, wtf4 improves its chances of being inherited.